ABSTRACT
If you are working your way through the whole or parts of this chapter you will find it helpful to have access to scenes, clips and single shots from at least some of the following films:
■ My Beautiful Laundrette (Frears, 1985) ■ My Son the Fanatic (Prasad, 1997) ■ Independence Day (Emmerich, 1993) ■ La Haine (Kassowitz, 1995) ■ Sin City (Tarantino, 2005)
This chapter deals with:
■ essential questions to ask yourself when studying a new film; ■ the importance of adopting a proactive, questioning attitude; ■ possible model approaches to interrogating films.
